Amanda "Mandy" Valentine (born July 25, 1990, in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

) is a Canadian figure skater

Figure skating

Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

. She was also a regular judge on the television series Ghost Trackers

Ghost Trackers

Ghost Trackers is a children's reality show on HBO that was previously aired on Discovery Kids Canada, & YTV.-Show summary:Middle-school age contestants compete for the title of "top tracker" by investigating supposedly haunted places armed with "ghost tracking technology." Previously hidden...

, and had a 2010 acting role in the Canadian television series Mixed Blessings

Mixed Blessings (Canadian TV series)

Mixed Blessings is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which airs on APTN.Created by Ron E. Scott and Drew Hayden Taylor, the series stars Gary Basaraba and Tina Lameman as Hank Kowalchuk and Josie Fraser, two widowed single parents in Fort McMurray, Alberta who fall in love and are faced...

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Background

Mandy Valentine is the daughter of the Canadian hockey player Chris Valentine

Chris Valentine

Christopher William Valentine is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach.He began his career in 1978 at St. Louis University. He was taken in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in the 10th round by the Washington Capitals...

. She began figure skating at the age of five years in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, where her father was playing professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

. In 2003 Mandy returned to Ontario, Canada with her family.
She won the national and international junior competitions for the Nepean

Nepean

-People:* Augustus Nepean , Middlesex county cricketer* Charles Nepean , Middlesex county cricketer and Oxford University footballer* Evan Nepean , British politician and colonial administrator...

 Figure Skating Club. She has also trained at the BC Centre of Excellence

BC Centre of Excellence

The BC Centre of Excellence is one of two major figure skating training centers in Canada. Located in Burnaby, British Columbia, it is home to many great national and international stars...

 in Burnaby, British Columbia

Burnaby, British Columbia

Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, located immediately to the east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by nearby Surrey and Vancouver....

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